I downloaded a whole book, pretty much by just pushing a button,” I said to him. “A whole book, for fuck’s sake!” “Big deal,” he said, flashing me that girls-can’t-code scowl I would come to know so well. I definitely could not code, but I knew something that this geek did not seem to grok: A book could be all the books, and a song could be all the songs, and a movie could be all the movies. It was right then and there that I came up with the concept that would carry me for decades hence and still does to this day: Everything that can be digitized will be digitized.
